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”This revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.” — Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance (2003) and Radical Compassion (2019)
My approach to therapy starts with a compassionate, caring and warm space. Treating ourselves tenderly can soothe wounds and make our mental health more sustainable and resilient. My work is grounded in an anti-oppressive lens and my therapy room is a place where you have permission to be the most honest version of yourself. My goal is to create a safe container which allows our process to unfold — whether that process is nurturing grief, moving towards change, processing trauma, or simply being a consistent figure who listens to your whole story from the start that got you here, to the finish line you have yet to cross. Together, we author the goals you want to reach, and articulate the barriers standing in your way. If you are a parent, it is my goal to centre your child’s autonomy in the therapy room and I believe that creating authentic relationships generates the most effective treatment. It is my job to see the world through your child’s eyes. Getting inside their perspective and working together as a team, my job is to help from a place of understanding rather than a prescription for a set of skills which can be hard to access in the moment of distress.
As a Registered Social Worker, I have almost a decade of experience supporting clients as young as 4, adolescents and adults across the life span. My specific expertise is focused on working with complex trauma presentations in children and adults, healthcare providers and first responders. I also work with varied presentations of ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety, life changes and general mental health concerns. A focus of my work in previous positions has been supporting gender diverse and 2SLGBTQIA+ youth. I provide parent coaching which centres neurodivergent and non-mainstream identifying youth in finding a sense of belonging in social, educational, and family contexts.
Trauma can have many definitions. In my work, I use the word to refer to an event or a sustained series of events, which can mean a specific memory, but equally can present as deep bodily reactions – a punch in the gut, a huge weight on your chest, losing your voice when you perceive a situation to be threatening. Our experiences, whether we are 4 or 40, can weave together to create tangled webs of behaviour, emotion and actions which can be hard to get out of alone. All throughout my own childhood, I constantly felt too “thin skinned,” or too sensitive. Have you noticed this about yourself or your child? This feeling can be the result of adverse events such as attachment injuries, ambiguous loss and grief, intergenerational or medical trauma. It also frequently occurs for anyone whose nervous system is hyper perceptive like folks with ADHD, autism or any other cluster of diagnosed or experienced sensitivities. The super power of an intensely attuned nervous system is a gift, but it is a challenge to learn to live with it well and I am here to facilitate that journey. We will do this work through evidence based treatments including Eye Motion Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR, 2025), Internal Family Systems (IFS, 2023) and Polyvagal Theory, which is a dynamic embodied approach supporting nervous system regulation. I am also trained in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and hold a Certificate in Trauma Counselling for Mental Health Professionals: Level 1 (2026) from SickKids Learning Centre.
Experiences working in the public sector led me to support client populations affected by systemic barriers and structural oppressions, sexual and gender-based violence, general child and adolescent mental health, youth justice and carceral systems. Doing this front line “downstream” clinical work for many years led me, post-pandemic, to a role with the Public Health Agency of Canada focused on upstream prevention and promotion of mental health. I loved the challenge and analytic content of that work, but I missed the connecting nature of clinical work, and the deep relationships which belong to it. I joined the Reflections team in 2024 and pursued further qualifications in specialized trauma treatment.
Outside the Reflections office, I am a practicing multidisciplinary artist and you can find me at a gallery, performance or concert somewhere in the region or spending time with my human family and our clowder of cats. My alternative career instead of social work I would be fashion design or record label producing. You’re most likely to spot me thrifting clothes and digging through crates of vinyl records at local haunts Caught My Eye or Music and Books. It’s hard to get out of Ayr with any money left on my pay cheque!